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<blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 5690183" data-attributes="member: 34958"><p>A couple of other notes. This adventure was based upon the Dungeon Magazine #29 adventure called 'Mightier than the Sword'. I stole about a third to a half of that entire adventure and made up the rest on my own. I decided to change the name so that you wouldn't accidentally stumble upon it in a internet search, and also because the name was too obvious.</p><p></p><p>In the TSR adventure by Willie Walsh, the fountain pen and the murder is a backdrop, along with the guild factions and such. But the murderer ends up being some random dude who was trying to gain Callery Frickard's land. Once the adventurers leave the murder scene, the whole backdrop of the fountain pen, the factional strife, and so on just goes away while the adventurers follow the clues to the real murderer. Even the set-up, the fountain pen, just lays about along with all Frickard's notes, meaning that this new and marvelous invention goes away as a part of the plot right after the first segment.</p><p></p><p>I changed things up to build upon the fountain pen. First, it's not such a large technological leap from a feather pen to a fountain pen, but it has such large potential ramifications. It is a completely different manufacturing change. A desktop computer and a iPhone may be the same basic device, but the changes in construction, accessibility, and usage are profound. Such a change has large social, economic and political ramifications.</p><p></p><p>I still kept aspects I liked. I could have went with the printing press idea, and I sure thought it over. I also considered going to a ballpoint pen. But I thought the large social changes caused by a slight technological change was more interesting. Also, although the printing press made reading more available, it did not necessarily free up writing to the same degree. Someone still had to purchase a large press machine and operating area to work a printing press. But having easy to use and procure writing material freed the regular person to express themselves and become great writers on their own initiative.</p><p></p><p>The Feadors can be viewed as evil, but they have their rationals to why they did what they did and believe that they were acting for the greater good. Wisten Frickard died believing he saved the world. If a noble could have looked upon the Gutenberg Press and seen a future where the descendants of his noble line would have been overthrown between the French Terror and World War II amidst horrific global wars of mass destruction, would he have ordered the press destroyed and Gutenberg killed?</p><p></p><p>I could have also made this adventure have a lot more plot twists, but I wanted it to be relatively short and it's hard to keep track of evidence in such an adventure over the long term of PbP. Finally, no matter what you did I never intended you to save the technology of the fountain pen, although you may have saved other concepts. PCs are perfect at kicking down doors and acting like an elite fighting unit, but there are fields that they'll never be superb in such as technological innovation and long-term strategic diplomacy. I wanted the PCs to be able to show their heroism, but at the same time realize that they cannot always fully win in everything.</p><p></p><p>You guys did great. My biggest pleasure was watching you refrain from violence being your first solution to each crisis. Your actions led to the murderer being killed, a neighborhood saved, a riot prevented, and two warring guilds who have gladly welcomed a temporary peace. Bravo!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deuce Traveler, post: 5690183, member: 34958"] A couple of other notes. This adventure was based upon the Dungeon Magazine #29 adventure called 'Mightier than the Sword'. I stole about a third to a half of that entire adventure and made up the rest on my own. I decided to change the name so that you wouldn't accidentally stumble upon it in a internet search, and also because the name was too obvious. In the TSR adventure by Willie Walsh, the fountain pen and the murder is a backdrop, along with the guild factions and such. But the murderer ends up being some random dude who was trying to gain Callery Frickard's land. Once the adventurers leave the murder scene, the whole backdrop of the fountain pen, the factional strife, and so on just goes away while the adventurers follow the clues to the real murderer. Even the set-up, the fountain pen, just lays about along with all Frickard's notes, meaning that this new and marvelous invention goes away as a part of the plot right after the first segment. I changed things up to build upon the fountain pen. First, it's not such a large technological leap from a feather pen to a fountain pen, but it has such large potential ramifications. It is a completely different manufacturing change. A desktop computer and a iPhone may be the same basic device, but the changes in construction, accessibility, and usage are profound. Such a change has large social, economic and political ramifications. I still kept aspects I liked. I could have went with the printing press idea, and I sure thought it over. I also considered going to a ballpoint pen. But I thought the large social changes caused by a slight technological change was more interesting. Also, although the printing press made reading more available, it did not necessarily free up writing to the same degree. Someone still had to purchase a large press machine and operating area to work a printing press. But having easy to use and procure writing material freed the regular person to express themselves and become great writers on their own initiative. The Feadors can be viewed as evil, but they have their rationals to why they did what they did and believe that they were acting for the greater good. Wisten Frickard died believing he saved the world. If a noble could have looked upon the Gutenberg Press and seen a future where the descendants of his noble line would have been overthrown between the French Terror and World War II amidst horrific global wars of mass destruction, would he have ordered the press destroyed and Gutenberg killed? I could have also made this adventure have a lot more plot twists, but I wanted it to be relatively short and it's hard to keep track of evidence in such an adventure over the long term of PbP. Finally, no matter what you did I never intended you to save the technology of the fountain pen, although you may have saved other concepts. PCs are perfect at kicking down doors and acting like an elite fighting unit, but there are fields that they'll never be superb in such as technological innovation and long-term strategic diplomacy. I wanted the PCs to be able to show their heroism, but at the same time realize that they cannot always fully win in everything. You guys did great. My biggest pleasure was watching you refrain from violence being your first solution to each crisis. Your actions led to the murderer being killed, a neighborhood saved, a riot prevented, and two warring guilds who have gladly welcomed a temporary peace. Bravo! [/QUOTE]
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